It is an example of a typical village school, similar to numerous ones built in the 1920s and 1930s in the villages of Małopolska. It was built by the villagers themselves and was in use until the 1960s, when a new school, the so-called ‘tysiąclatka’, was built next to it. The school has two large classrooms arranged symmetrically on both sides of a narrow corridor. The corridor also served as a cloakroom and hygiene corner. The room on the left is furnished to resemble a classroom from the Second Polish Republic. The modest furnishings convey the atmosphere of a poor village school: benches with inkwells, a teacher’s desk, a blackboard on a stand, basic school supplies. The second room is a classroom from the early 1950s and shows the changes that took place in rural education after the Second World War. There are teaching aids from this period and portraits of the leaders of the time hang on the walls. The back entrance leads to the teacher’s flat and the school office, furnished like most buildings of this type in the Second Polish Republic. The flat consists of a small room and a kitchen, and is modestly furnished in a small-town style.
Village School from Nowe Rybie
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